Just couldn't get on board with it.

Rating: 5/10 (31 July 2013)

I'm starting to think that there is a direct correlation between my level of anticipation and ultimate disappointment, the last three blockbusters I've seen have let me down, starting with Prometheus and Dark Knight Rises and now this.
That can't be true though because Inception and Social Network delivered and I couldn't wait to see them. Anyway yeah Pacific Rim, it's a strange one. I went in thinking this was gonna be the anti-Transformers, making sense and having a soul and in some ways it delivers but in others it just doesn't cut it.
I'm starting to think the internet has ruined movies for me, people are so quick to point out the minutest flaws in any movie that you end up looking for them. But this has flaws.
The plot for starters wouldn't be out of place in a mid 90's computer game and I'm not spoiling anything to reveal this as it's in the first 30 seconds of the film. The story is that there are monsters coming out of the earth called Kaiju, and to tackle these mankind built huge manned robots named Jaeger's. And the movie basically consists of giant battles punctuated with tacky dialogue and questionable acting.
The positives of the movie are obviously the design and look, which are at times spectacular. The robots are fleshed out and given enough appreciation to see them as a character, and Guillermo Del Toro takes time to show you how they work, unlike Transoformers which has two giant piles of indistinct silver hitting each other.
The CGI overall is amazing and the design as always with Guillermo Del Toro is delicious. But the problems with the movie however are with the script, I think maybe the movie was trying to engage a younger audience more as the acting and dialogue are at times incredibly tacky and contrived.
The plot is by the numbers all the way through and features a collection of wooden characters, and also features a series of plot points which don't make a lot of senses when looked at a little deeper.
Overall not my cup of tea, some impressive touches and the battles are fun but didn't satisfy my intellect remotely and left me feeling a bit indifferent towards it.